Household energy, health and development
- Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Almost half of the world's population, between 2 and 3 billion people, still rely on simple biomass fuels (wood, animal dung, crop wastes) and coal for their everyday cooking and heating needs. Often burned indoors on simple, inefficient stoves, this leads to exposure of large numbers of women and young children to very high levels of smoke pollution. Concern about air pollution has been mainly focused on urban areas of developed countries, yet the combination of high levels and the very large numbers of people exposed actually means that the greatest problem lies with the indoor environment of poor rural and urban …
